Tom Engelhardt: Iran Through the Looking Glass
January 31, 2012 |
Iranian aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Mexico, and why it can’t happen here. |
Michael T. Klare: Hormuz-Mania
January 31, 2012 |
Why closure of the Strait of Hormuz could ignite a war and a global depression. |
Russ Baker: Ten Questions on Romney’s Taxes
January 30, 2012 |
So, Romney’s taxes have been disclosed. But what does it all mean? |
January 27, 2012—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
January 27, 2012 |
Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group. |
Zoya Phan: Burma Needs Real Peace, Not Just A Pause in Conflict
January 27, 2012 |
What’s the benchmark for real change in Burma? |
VIDEO: Inshallah, Kashmir: Living Terror
January 27, 2012 |
Without India’s Censor Board approval, Oscar-nominated director Ashvin Kumar releases new documentary on Kashmiris’ plight online. |
Joel Whitney: Celebrating One Year Since Egypt’s Uprising
January 26, 2012 |
This week marks the one-year anniversary of Egypt’s landmark protests. A new film collective reminds us of the courage that spawned it, and the work yet to do. |
Christian Parenti: Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government
January 26, 2012 |
A secret history of free enterprise and the government that made it possible. |
Joanna Eede: The Fate of the Jarawa
January 26, 2012 |
Two years after Andaman tribe dies, another “faces extinction.” |
Torie Rose DeGhett: Troubadours of the Revolution
January 25, 2012 |
The repertoire of musical dissidence performed by hip hop artists and rappers has been a key force in the Arab Spring. |
Robert Reich: Who is Sheldon Adelson and What Has Newt Promised Him?
January 25, 2012 |
Do you know who Sheldon and Marian Adelson are? Do you know what Newt Gingrich has promised them, or what they think they’ll get out of a Grinch presidency? |
William Astore: Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict
January 24, 2012 |
Today we’re playing a new tune: what’s good for Lockheed Martin or Boeing or [insert major-defense-contractor-of-your-choice here] is good for America. |
Søren Schmidt: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Syria
January 24, 2012 |
Otto von Bismarck is said to have remarked that the wise statesman listens to the footsteps of history. It seems that Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has a different theory. |
Russ Baker: The Deaths of JFK, RFK—and the Silence of the Lambs
January 23, 2012 |
Plenty of new “JFK assassination” material coming down the pike for you avid consumers. Too bad it’s mostly garbage. When exactly did courage and truth-seeking go out of fashion? |
Robert Reich: The State of Our Disunion
January 23, 2012 |
Why the government allows itself to be overwhelmed by corporate money. |
Hari Kunzru: Reading The Satanic Verses in Jaipur
January 22, 2012 |
Why the novelist read from Salman Rushdie’s banned book The Satanic Verses to mark his protest against the cancellation of Rushdie’s visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival. |
January 20, 2012—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
January 20, 2012 |
Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group. |
Joanna Eede: Reported Killing of Uncontacted Awá Tribe Child
January 20, 2012 |
“Evidence of attack” discovered where Indian child was reportedly “burned alive.” |
Karen Charman: Fukushima: Why We Should (Still) Be Worried
January 20, 2012 |
If you thought you didn’t need to pay attention any more to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, well, you’d be wrong. The Japanese government isn’t necessarily taking the right steps. |
Chase Madar: Blood on Whose Hands?
January 19, 2012 |
Bradley Manning, Washington, and accusing WikiLeaks of murder. |
Robert Reich: The Romney Tax Loophole
January 19, 2012 |
Don’t call it the Romney tax, as Newt wants to do. Call it the Romney tax loophole. And let him explain why he thinks it’s justified. |
Roslyn Bernstein: In the Land of Double Letters: Artists’ Housing and Studios in Scandinavia
January 18, 2012 |
Whatever their living and studio situation, the goal of most artists is to have their work shown. |
Conversations With History: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb
January 18, 2012 |
Author Avner Cohen discusses his latest book, explicates Israel’s nuclear doctrine of amimut, and analyzes the threat posed to Israel if Iran succeeds in acquiring nuclear weapons. |
David Morris: How Obama Can Guarantee a Second Term
January 18, 2012 |
Stand in the doorway of a post office scheduled for closing and declare “Not on my watch.” |
Robert Reich: Free Enterprise on Trial
January 17, 2012 |
The higher you go in the economy, the easier it is to make money without taking any personal financial risk at all. |
Writers Bloc Event
January 17, 2012 |
Event at the Free Word Lecture Theatre featured Kamila Shamsie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and our own Michael Archer. |
Carmen García Durazo: The Counterpoint of Change
January 17, 2012 |
The Writers Bloc essays don’t have to have a direct affect on policy or pedagogy to be meaningful. |
Tahmima Anam: Bangladesh
January 17, 2012 |
In this piece from our Writers Bloc project, our collection of essays about education systems around the world, Tahmima Anam explores madrasas in Bangladesh. |
Zukiswa Wanner: South Africa
January 17, 2012 |
In this piece from our Writers Bloc project, our collection of essays about education systems around the world, Zukiswa Wanner explores the politics of South African education. |
Petina Gappah: Zimbabwe
January 17, 2012 |
In this piece from our Writers Bloc project, our collection of essays about education systems around the world, Petina Gappah revisits her childhood schools in Zimbabwe. |
Hardeep Singh Kohli: India
January 17, 2012 |
In this piece from our Writers Bloc project, our collection of essays about education systems around the world, Hardeep Singh Kohli travels back to his hometown in the Punjab. |
Nick Laird: Nepal
January 17, 2012 |
In this piece from our Writers Bloc project, our collection of essays about education systems around the world, Nick Laird explores education in Maoist-controlled Nepal. |
Rachel Holmes: Palestine
January 16, 2012 |
In this piece from our Writers Bloc project, our collection of essays about education systems around the world, Rachel Holmes inflames imaginations with the Palestine Writing Workshop. |
Nick Turse: The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare
January 16, 2012 |
What 70 downed drones tell us about the new American way of war. |
January 13, 2012—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
January 13, 2012 |
Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group. |
Fred Pearce: Can “Climate-Smart” Agriculture Help Both Africa and the Planet?
January 13, 2012 |
What carbon-conscious, “climate-smart” agriculture could mean for some of the world’s poorest farmers. |
Nathalie Handal: Haiti
January 13, 2012 |
In the first piece in our Writers Bloc project, our collection of essays about education systems around the world, writer Nathalie Handal visits Haiti a year after its devastating earthquake. |
Joshua Dratel: A Loaded Gun
January 12, 2012 |
Why the NDAA will substantially reduce, if not eliminate altogether, international cooperation with respect to counter-terrorism. |
Justin Alvarez: Haiti: Tents Beyond Tents
January 12, 2012 |
On the second anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, a comics journalism project highlights the devastated country that is still recovering. |
Anthony Cuthbertson: Syria’s Torture Machine
January 12, 2012 |
British documentary offers cause for concern in more ways than one. |
Carmen García Durazo: Posthuman at Last: Chaos and Cunning in Jay Scheib’s World of Wires
January 12, 2012 |
Are you living in a computer simulation? Jay Scheib’s recent work, World of Wires, may have the answer. |
Christina Chauvenet: The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes
January 12, 2012 |
Scott Wallace’s new book, The Unconquered, provides insight into the unknown world of isolated tribes in the Amazon. |
Tom Engelhardt: Superpower Adrift in an Alien World
January 12, 2012 |
It’s time for us to realize that none of the crucial problems on this planet are amenable to military solutions, not even by a country willing to pour its treasure into previously unheard of national security expenditures. |
Mallika Kaur: Women and Exclusionary Development
January 11, 2012 |
Recent protests by Punjabi farmers against the Gobindpura land acquisition and spirited participation by women in these protests illustrate that “women’s issues” are not limited to practices that only impact them. |
Chris Lombardi: No Art by Committee
January 11, 2012 |
The power of Jane Hammond’s Fallen lies in its simplicity. Let’s not clutter it. |
John Sevigny: The Center of Our Loss
January 11, 2012 |
What Hammond’s Fallen says about American soldier-centered mourning. |
Philip Warburg: Wind Power: America’s New Harvest
January 11, 2012 |
Unlike the battering that U.S. solar equipment producers have suffered at the hands of Chinese and other Asian competitors, America is well on its way to building a robust domestic manufacturing platform for wind. |
Russ Baker: An Open Letter to NYT Staffers: Leave the Plantation and Join Us
January 11, 2012 |
A response to the recent wave of NYT insurrection. |
Juan Cole: Ahmadinejad in Latin America
January 11, 2012 |
A combination of anti-imperialism, a desire for independence from the U.S., and Iran’s oil wealth is giving Tehran a continued opening in Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador. |
Mark Dowie: What’s A Park For?
January 10, 2012 |
The battle over whether or not to allow the cultivation of oysters inside a California national park. |
Lex Paulson: Applied Classics: How Pythagoras Explains Ron Paul
January 10, 2012 |
When a movement is more important than a win. |
Joanna Eede: “Human Safaris” Exposed in the Andaman Islands
January 10, 2012 |
The Observer fights back against exploitation of India’s island Jarawa tribe. |
Michael T. Klare: Danger Waters
January 10, 2012 |
When the U.S. faces a problem in the world—say, keeping the energy flowing on this planet—the first thing that’s done is to militarize the problem. It’s the only way Washington now knows how to think. |
Robert Reich: How a Little Bit of Good Economic News Can Be Bad for the President
January 10, 2012 |
Don’t expect the unemployment rate to stay down |
Lorraine Adams: Obligation or Wisdom?
January 9, 2012 |
The Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist weighs in on our debate over criticism and Jane Hammond’s Fallen. |
Legacy Russell: This Is Just to Say: Challenging Jane Hammond’s Fallen
January 9, 2012 |
Accepting artwork is not the job of the critic, just like accepting the world around one is not the job of the artist. |
Robin Yassin-Kassab: Out of It
January 9, 2012 |
A heart-lurching debut novel from an up-and-coming British Palestinian writer. |
Anthony Kammer: America’s Libertarian Pendulum
January 9, 2012 |
The return of libertarianism shouldn’t shock you. |
Juan Cole: Turkey Warns Against Sunni-Shiite Civil War
January 9, 2012 |
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s general emphasis on tamping down tensions couldn’t be more essential. |
January 8, 2012—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
January 8, 2012 |
Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group. |
Spencer Mandel: The Cradle of Conflagration: The End (and Beginning) of the War for Iraq
January 6, 2012 |
Have all our expenditures in blood and money bought a more stable society in Iraq? |
Katie Ryder: “And will you be taking the ACD?”
January 5, 2012 |
A writer reflects on her arrest at Occupy Wall Street’s protest near Times Square on October 15th. |
Rebecca Bates: I Ran Away From Home and All I Got Was This Lousy Deportation
January 5, 2012 |
A Dallas teen missing since 2010 turns up in Colombia, where she was deported after a mistaken identity. |
Bill McKibben: Armed With Naïvete
January 5, 2012 |
Why it’s time to stop being cynical and start getting angry. |
Jillian Steinhauer: In Defense of Jane Hammond’s Fallen
January 5, 2012 |
A good critic doesn’t tell the artist what they ought to have done. |
Jay Walljasper: 12 Reasons You’ll Be Hearing More About the Commons in 2012
January 5, 2012 |
We Power stands at the convergence of economic and cultural trends. |
Robert Reich: The Decline of the Public Good
January 5, 2012 |
Even Margaret Thatcher would be appalled by the privatization of American society. |
Jonathan M. Ladd: Why Is Everyone Mad at the Mainstream Media?
January 4, 2012 |
When and why did Americans stop trusting the media? Jonathan M. Ladd offers some ideas in his new book. |
Juan Cole: Will His New Sanctions on Iran Cost Obama the Presidency?
January 4, 2012 |
The Obama administration is imposing new penalties against Iran, but is the U.S. playing with fire? |
Tom Engelhardt: Lessons from Lost Wars in 2012
January 3, 2012 |
Over the last decade, the U.S. has been taught a repetitive lesson when it comes to ground wars on the Eurasian mainland: don’t launch them. |
Russ Baker: Iowa: Watch!… Watch!… Watch!… Why are you Watching?
January 3, 2012 |
Deconstructing conventional media and the 2012 horserace. |
Suggested Admission
January 1, 2012Is the dearth of world-class museums in India part of the tragic legacy of empire?
